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I want to learn a skill, either Data Analysis or Software testing, so am in a delima to choose. My fear on data analysis is the rate at which the skill is saturated, I feel getting a job might be challenging. Please I need advice. Thank you

Isn't software testing tied to other Software engineering🤔 and why would you chose to learn the skill in isolation?

What you said about data analytics is relatively true but what actually helps me is my natural love for data. Everything about data gets me excited. Since I started as an analyst (with Matlab) during my Post graduate days analysing students and my lecturers data from there I moved to python, R and subsequently Power BI.

Along the line I learnt other side skills like webscraping, data science. Even though I dont have an official job yet the skill I picked up along the cause of learning ensures that I am never short of gigs😊

Towards the end of the first quarter of last year my client introduced me to the cloud that's how I got into data governance and data engineering(bagged dp203 already). These days I am expanding my scope to cloud as I am interested in how data intersects with networks and security ( for a start I am eyeing Azure cloud administration, Az104) and would also focus on getting Databricks data engineering certificate.

So you see, don't allow your mind to limit you. There are other skills linked to software testing or data analytics you can just chose to progress from the skill into other areas. Do not let the fear of a field being saturated discourage you

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